If you've coached volleyball for more than a season, you probably have a rotation sheet somewhere. Ours were a mix of a whiteboard photo, a spreadsheet that broke every time a middle got hurt, and a laminated card that was right for exactly one lineup. Then a kid sprains an ankle on Thursday, you move your setter, and every one of those has to be redrawn before Saturday.
We built Rotato so that doesn't happen. You set up your lineup once and Rotato draws all six rotations for you: serve receive, serving, defense, blocks and the plays you run. When the lineup changes, every rotation changes with it.
What does Rotato do?
Rotato is a volleyball rotation app for coaches: it draws all six rotations of your lineup for serve receive, serving, defense and offense, checks overlap, and shares the result to your players' iPhones.
- Every rotation, every system. 5-1, 6-2, 5-2 and 4-2, with Standard, Triangle / 3-Middle and Texas lineups. Two liberos per set, with the subs they replace.
- Overlap checks. Drag players into your serve receive and Rotato tells you if it's legal, using NFHS, USAV or NCAA rules.
- Serve receive to defense. Base defense plus OH, Middle and RS block and backrow views. Perimeter, rotation, modified rotation, man-up, middle-middle and pinch.
- Plays that match your offense. Serve receive, free ball, in system and out of system plays for every rotation, starting from standard set names or your own calls.
- The player card. Tap a player to see their job in every phase of a rotation.
- Rosters that roll over. Import a roster by pasting a list, from a Google Doc or Sheet, or from a photo of a printed roster. School programs graduate seniors; club programs reset teams each season.
- Print-ready sheets. Lineup sheets (NFHS serving order or USAV court grid), a one-page rotation sheet and a play sheet as PDFs.
Which device does what?
iPad and Mac are the full coach app; iPhone is a free, view-only viewer for players and parents. It's one app on the App Store, so everyone downloads the same thing.
How do players and parents see it?
From the Rotations screen, tap Share with team to get a link and a 6-letter team code; players open it on their iPhone and see the rotations, plays, roster and tournament schedule.
It's view only: only you can change anything, and your edits show up for them automatically. Nobody needs an account. More on the players and parents page.
What about club tournaments?
Link your club team to its AES entry once, by pasting any AES event link the team is entered in, and Rotato follows the team all season.
You see times, courts, opponents, work duties and results for each day, and you get an alert when a schedule posts or a match moves. See AES tournaments in Rotato.
How do I try it?
Download Rotato and look around the demo teams first: it opens with a demo school program and a demo club program, so you can try every feature before you type a single name.
When you're ready, make your own program, add a team and import your roster. The getting started guide walks through it.
What does it cost?
One team is free, with every rotation, defense and play feature; paid plans add sharing and more teams.
Assistant Coach ($4.99/month or $39.99/year) adds sharing your team with players and parents. Head Coach ($9.99/month or $79.99/year) covers up to 3 teams, all shared. Program ($19.99/month or $149.99/year) is unlimited teams and programs, plus your own default systems. Each plan tracks as many AES teams as it has teams, with alerts and the morning check for every one; to follow one more, an extra tracked team is $4.99, once, through July 31. Rotato AI, the optional add-on that builds a lineup from a photo of your lineup sheet, is $4.99/month or $39.99/year, with 100-command packs for $2.99. The iPhone viewer stays free, and everything you set up before plans keeps working. See pricing.
It's brand new, and you decide what's next
Rotato is new, and it's built by people who coach. If something doesn't work the way your team runs, tell us: in the app, tap Settings › Send Feedback, or use our contact form. We read every message, and coaches' notes decide what we build next.
Your rosters and lineups stay on your device. No ads, no tracking.
— The Rotato team at Go Daily Games